Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood write by Joseph Bristow. This book was released on 2017-11-09. Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde’s works—not just his fairy stories—have been adapted for young audiences.
Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures write by Monica Flegel. This book was released on 2018-04-19. Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender, race, and class influence who gets labeled 'cruel' and which actions are viewed as negative, aggressive, and disruptive. It shows how representations of cruel young people negotiate the violence that shadows polite society, and how narratives of cruelty and aggression are used to affirm, or to deny, young people’s agency.
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life write by Oscar Wilde. This book was released on 2022-06-02. Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life" by Oscar Wilde is a letter that was written by the author to the editor of the London Daily Chronicle. Wilde states about child cruelty in prison and makes the argument that children under the age of 14 must not be imprisoned, implying that there were children under the age of 14 in prison with him. He writes a few stories about the gentleness of the recently fired prison guard. He explains why cruelty is tolerated in prison but kindness is not.
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oscar Wilde's Chatterton write by Joseph Bristow. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Oscar Wilde's Chatterton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial “Chatterton” notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wilde's career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,”The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources,Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why, in Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.
Built of Books
Built of Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Built of Books write by Thomas Wright. This book was released on 2010-04-24. Built of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life's pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde's library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait. One of the book's happiest surprises is the story of the author's adventure reading Wilde's library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges's fictional hero who enters Cervantes's mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.
